CVE-2023-23598 (GCVE-0-2023-23598)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-02 00:00
Modified
2025-01-09 16:22
Severity ?
CWE
  • Arbitrary file read from GTK drag and drop on Linux
Summary
Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to <code>DataTransfer.setData</code>. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109, Thunderbird < 102.7, and Firefox ESR < 102.7.
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Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 109
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   Mozilla Thunderbird Version: unspecified   < 102.7
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   Mozilla Firefox ESR Version: unspecified   < 102.7
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